It has been noted how lifelong learning plays a powerful role in enabling individuals and nations to reach their full potential. Without widening and deepening access to lifelong learning it will be increasingly hard to meet the challenges of the Education for All goals and adapt our economies and lifestyles to take account of climate change. The article will discuss the recommendations at the end of each of the earlier articles and articulate the reservations and limitations that come along with such recommendations. It is often tempting to make recommendations for low-hanging-fruit, for quick-easy-wins. This too is understandable since these create early credibility and momentum, and a straightforward account of cause-and-effect, but they should be integrated within a wider, more coherent and consistent framework and direction. This is not straightforward. Our incomplete examples, experiences and evidence will always support a variety of different interpretations and apparently plausible explanations that persuade us to construct the rationale and the narrative and discard the anecdote and the accidental.